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...play," he said. "The future of civilization is not at stake." He gave a strong hint of what was to become his skewed, lifelong approach to a story on his first sports assignment in 1928: covering a night football practice, he wrote the piece from the viewpoint of a glowworm depressed by the awesome competition of the field lights. Smith was exceptionally prolific, turning out five columns a week for 21 years at the New York Herald Tribune, and four a week for ten years at the New York Times. He lavished most of his attention on his favorite sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 25, 1982 | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...taxing their brains with too much learning. Similarly, a sentimentalist writing for the Pennsylvania Magazine advises women not to be too active, too witty or too cheerful. Praise is reserved for the young lady whose "gentle bosom burns,/ Like lamps plac'd near sepulchral urns,/ Or like the glowworm in the night,/ It gleams with melancholy light." Although John Adams is not an avowed adherent of this ethic, its influence is apparent in his recent explanation of why women should be denied the vote: "Their delicacy renders them unfit for practice and experience in the great businesses of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Remember the Ladies | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...full of notes--his text is followed with not less than 56 pages of footnote--he seems to have felt an obligation to use them all. (He informs us at one point that on a post-war trip through southern Europe, Lawrence stopped over in Albania to lead a glowworm-catching contest). Much of the background, in particular, would not have been missed, and in several places detracts from the force of his interpretation...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: What the Desert Can do to a Man | 5/14/1976 | See Source »

...quite what the fuss was about. It could not be communicated fully on records-the burning lava flow of energy raising audiences to their feet and into the aisles. But for those who saw her perform even once, it was not easy to forget the gyrating girl in a glowworm mini, all surging emotion boiling up through swirls of curses and Southern Comfort in a Dixie cup. Or the single vivid impression recorded in the mind's eye that, without the scalding voice and tremulous ostrich plume headdress, she was really rather small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Alone with the Blues | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...body can grow as long as a foot, has so few natural enemies that it can roam almost anywhere. Plagued by other recent invaders-the Bufo toad from Central America and the Asian walking catfish-Florida biologists are reluctant to import any anti-snail predators, such as the India glowworm, the hermit crab, or even more Bufos, which are known to feed on the young snails. Instead, they have begun careful spraying with insecticide (granules of metaldehyde mixed with tricalcium arsenide). So far, the chemical warfare seems effective. But the snail threat will not abate until the last Achatina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Tale of a Snail | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

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